I recently watched a video on YouTube featuring William Lane Craig. His assertion was that the “new atheists” were rather not intellectually bright, and that they present no sophisticated philosophical arguments. The new atheists, he claims, are doing little more than rehashing arguments from the intellectual giants (my words) who were their predecessors, such as Bertrand Russell.
Presenting Russell’s arguments, for example, is hard not to do. The man, right or wrong, truly was an intellectual giant. A behemoth of a beast of a philosophical machine. You cannot, I think, blame the new atheists, such as Dawkins and Hitchens, for carrying on with Russell’s arguments, as far as they go. (more…)